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Billy Currington (William Matthew Currington) is a well-known US country singer and song-writer. Born on November 19, 1973, his home town is in Rincon, Georgia. Presently, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Since he was born and brought up immersed in traditional Southern culture, Billy's music features the roots and lives of hard-working people. Billy Currington began to writing songs and playing guitars at the age of 17. After graduation, he moved to Nashville to make a career in music.
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Billy Currington is one of only three country singers in the past 12 months to have placed two singles from their debut albums in the top 10. (The others were Gretchen Wilson and Buddy Jewell.) But Party for Two, a new duet with Shania Twain, puts the 30-year-old Georgia native in a whole new league.
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August 13, 2007 — Billy Currington has a hot new single in "Tangled Up" and he's just earned his first platinum album. At a recent party in Nashville celebrating the platinum status of Doin' Somethin' Right, he told Country Weekly that success snuck up on him.
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Billy Currington was helped enormously by his duet with Shania Twain on "Party for Two," a new track on her 2004 Greatest Hits album. She had two versions of the song on the record -- one cut with Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath for the pop audience, the version with Currington for country fans, and it's not entirely a stretch to say that Currington is a country McGrath: good-looking, likeable, entirely comfortable with selling out so he can reach as big of an audience possible, yet kind of ingratiating because he's not only charming, he's good at it. And his second album, Doin' Something Right proves this: while it doesn't take any chances, it's a thoroughly entertaining and satisfying contemporary country album. Despite his protestations that he wants to be a hillbilly on the rocking, twangy opening cut, Currington has as strong a foundation in pop as he does in country. He not only gets a nicely mellow, relaxed Californian vibe on the title track, but he collaborates with Michael McDonald on "She's Got a Way with Me," a song that could have fit comfortably onto soft rock stations in the early '80s, when McDonald provided his signature gruff, soulful harmonies on every other track. Currington ... covers Kenny Rogers' hit "Lucille," but he does a neat trick with it, one that illustrates why this album is so enjoyable: he does a harder country version than Rogers, proving that he can pull off both lighter pop and straight-ahead country with one performance. The rest of the record goes back and forth between these two extremes -- sometimes subtlety, sometimes not -- and Currington comes across like a blend of Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain, and Alan Jackson: he has the good looks and frat-boy sensibility of Chesney and the pop sense and common touch of Shania, but it's tempered by a touch of the neo-traditional twang of Jackson.
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Billy Currington's "Good Directions" retains the No. 1 position on the country singles chart for a second week with Emerson Drive's "Moments" hot on its heels at No. 2. Toby Keith's "High Maintenance Woman" nails the No. 3 position, trailed by Brad Paisley's "Ticks" at No. 4, Alan Jackson's "A Woman's Love" at No. 5 and Tracy Lawrence's "Who You're Friends Are" at No. 6 -- with all titles showing increased airplay. Sugarland's "Settlin'" (No. 7) and Rascal Flatts' "Stand" (No. 8) are on the way out, Strait's "Wrapped" goes up to No. 9, and Montgomery Gentry's "Lucky Man" sticks around at No. 10.
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Billy Currington was born in Rincon, Georgia, USA on 19 November 1973. Today, he already proves himself as quite successful and prolific American country singer and songwriter. Self-titled debut compilation of Billy Currtington was completed in 2003. Its lead single "Walk a little straighter" successfully placed on number 8 in the same year in "Hot country singles and tracks" chart and determined Billy Currington as well-known country performer in Nashville. So, he soon hit for the first time the top 5 of certain country charts with his second song "I got a feelin", appeared ... in his debut compilation. A bit later, in 2004, Billy Currington scored third consecutive successful top 10 hit, along with Shania Twain from her track "Party for two". In 2005, Currington presented his second album, entitled "Doin somethin right". It soon climbed on number 2 in "Top country albums" chart and on number 11 in Billboard 200.
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